My toolkit for starting a software engineering/development team

First, I will read these awesome tips for new startup CTOs, then go for a walk, and read them again.

Next, regardless of if it’s just me who is going to be going solo on this first and build the team eventually, or if I have a team ready to go, these are the tools I would set up (bold = preferred option):

Google Apps for Work

For Code Repo:

• GitHub (GitHub Enterprise if I want the server locally hosted)
• BitBucket

For the Engineering/Sprint planning:

• [new] ZenHub
• GitHub Milestones + Issues
• Pivotal Tracker
• [new] Waffle.io that integrates with GitHub Issues & Milestones

For “General Project Management/Product roadmap”:

• A shared Google spreadsheet: My Product Roadmap Template
• Basecamp
• Trello

For Bug Tracking:

• GitHub Milestones + Issues
• Jira

For Team Communications:

• HipChat
• Slack

For One-On-One Communications (when in-person isn’t possible):

• Screenhero
• Google Hangouts

For Continuous Integration & Automated Code Analysis:

• CircleCI or whatever does the job and is the cheapest.
• Code Climate

For storing documents, etc:

• Google Drive
• Box
• Dropbox

Code/Style Guides (for Web Development):

• HTML/CSS
• Ruby on Rails best practices and style prescriptions

For “Other” Things:

• For writing down everything someone needs to know to contribute to the software engineering/development : GitHub Wiki
• For writing down everything someone needs to know to contribute to the project (not engineering/development-related): Google Drive
• For daily standups: Flock
• For collaborating on design: Invision

Finally, there are a couple of tools I haven’t been able to try yet, but look very useful:

• Hey Update! for a way to stay on top of progress of the entire team (not just developers).
• Sprintly for visually tracking progress on sprints.